Difficulties in job as a new graduate!!

RE: Difficulties in job as a new graduate!!

Tania Ford — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 17:17:17 GMT

[quote user="apache"]I thought you had to be 2 years qualified to be a clinical coach?[/quote]

2 years is the standard, but.....consideration will be given to relatively newly qualified RVN's if they have been in practice for many years before training and successfully qualifying.

RE: Difficulties in job as a new graduate!!

C4RLY — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 18:19:34 GMT

I have to say that I agree with the ladies above. The way that you are taught at the time may of been to a very high standard but there is not one way to complete every task. I've learnt so many different methods of completing the same task from moving around multiple practices within my 15 years as a VN. Being flexible and open minded is a great skill to have and will help you massively throughout your career. As within human medicine things change all the time. Veterinary nursing is a career that you will never stop learning, be like a sponge.

PS Congratulations on joining the Green Brigade. Be proud of who you are and what you've achieved.

RE: Difficulties in job as a new graduate!!

Sal the 1st — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 23:07:48 GMT

How many different practices did you work in while you were training? How do you know you were taught best practice by your clinical coach?

Its difficult because even within different branches of the same group there will always be differences in the way that things are done and if you have only had one clinical coach it would be difficult for you to appraise their standards against another clinical coach. Don't forget you are joining what sounds like an established team, they have an established way of doing things that works for them. They may be feeling as awkward over this as you are?

To me the single most important word in your situation would be flexibility - accept that there are always different ways of doing things - it isn't letting your standards slip, look on it as another layer of learning.Maybe the practice is very set in its ways, maybe you are too? Don't turn it into a battle of wills. Don't dismiss something that doesn't fit in exactly with what you are taught,at the least find out the reasoning for doing it that way. Get a few years under your belt. Pick up as many different ways of doing things as you can along the way, decide for yourself which ones work - and that will make you a good teacher.

RE: Difficulties in job as a new graduate!!

apache — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 21:32:00 GMT

Is their way inferior or just different? I don't think you should lower your standards, but at this stage in your career I'd be inclined to go along with their way of doing things for now. Once you are established in the practice then perhaps look at modifying how they work and do things. I think fighting it is just making you miserable and knocking your confidence.

I thought you had to be 2 years qualified to be a clinical coach?

Can you give any more specific examples?

Remember there's a shortage of nurses so you can always walk if you can't get on there.